Life is frustrating!

[Ball99999]

When you major in the wrong thing and can't find a job you're technically qualified for and you get older. Is there a point of no return in life where it's impossible to become rich?

[panbanger]

For the vast majority of people, the point of no return is birth - if you arent born to rich parents there is very little chance of you ever being rich.

On the other hand, there is a point where you stop caring about being rich. Where the accumulation of "stuff" stops being important. That point is different for everyone though. With me, it took place over the course of a few years. Began with the passing of my Mother, which taught me to seriously not sweat the small stuff in life and enjoy the little things so much more. A few years after that when I lost 98% of my earthly possesions from a hurricane...that just proved to me what I already knew.

Wow, sorry I kinda derailed your thread with that rambling!

[hehateme]

I don't think there every is a point of no return, of course it all depends on your definition of the word "rich".

Do you have a great family, kids, wife, etc.? If yes, then you're already rich. I know a lot of people who are money rich, but happiness poor, and I feel sorry for them.. Do I wish I had a lot of money, sure who doesn't? I do have a wife that has my back, kids that love and look up to me, and I'm a happy person.

I'm sort of in the same boat education-wise, went to school, now can't get a job in the field I took while there, and I'm not getting any younger over here. Don't sweat it.. Your opportunity will arise.

[AZBowla]

They say that being rich or winning the lottery ruins your life. I'd sure like to find out for myself someday.... :)

Seriously, though... back when I was a kid I set a goal for myself to become a millionaire by age 35. Did I make it? Hell no, not even close! These days I barely scrape by paycheck to paycheck (paying child support on three kids doesn't help any there) but I've NEVER been happier. I have an absolutely wonderful woman in my life, I see my kids all the time and I make enough money to provide a comfortable place to live, good food to eat and even a few luxuries like high speed internet, and stuff like a new bowling ball now and then and trips to the alley to go throw it around. Add in the occasional beer or two and hell, you can't get any better than that.

As for not being able to find a job in your chosen field, it happens. A college degree though is a college degree and says something very important about you: that you finish what you start. So the next time you apply for a job to get you by until your chosen field opens up and the manager tells you you're overqualified because you have a degree in Nuclear Quantum Physics or whatever you just tell him "I respectfully disagree. That degree proves that I'm smart, I work hard, I finish what I start and I can be depended on to do what's required. I'm perfectly qualified for this job and I'll prove it to you if you give me the chance." And don't sweat the small stuff. Getting rich is nice (so I hear) but I'd much rather be broke and happy than rich and miserable.

[billf]

The time when you can no longer get rich is at death. That's the only time where anything on Earth is no longer attainable. Until then, it's all possible. Maybe not probable but possible. If all you're looking for in life is being rich financially, you will never find true happiness. Plus it's all relative. No matter how much of anything you have somebody will have more. That goes for most things if not all. No matter how bad you have it, somebody has it worse. It's all perspective but as humans are natural thought is of ourselves first. Then we get married and at least at first, think of our spouse first. Then with kids, they come first. Before you know it you feel like you don't matter at all. That's why balance is so important.
I've buried two kids and two grandchildren yet I still have what I consider a good life. I'm broke as heck and would love to win millions. I think it would make me happier but maybe not. I would still work only it would be at the pro shop of my own bowling alley lol
I have a bachelor's in business management yet I'm an auto mechanic. I use to love my job but not anymore. I guess after doing it since I was 12 (minus military time) I'm just tired of it. I started the first Saturday in October in 1980!

[JaMau24]

For the vast majority of people, the point of no return is birth - if you arent born to rich parents there is very little chance of you ever being rich.

At some point in that family, someones parents weren't rich and they got rich themselves.

I'm of the belief that if you work hard, and if you put forth all your effort to what you really want, you'll get it eventually. I hope and believe I'm going to be money rich one day (and not from bowling lol, even if I did want to go that route and was good enough to go that route, and succeeded in that route, there isn't much money in it). Hopefully sooner rather than later. It takes time though, unless you're fortunate to win the lottery. The people that win the lottery that eventually get depressed or kill themselves are people who aren't prepared for money like that. Two common things that lead to that are, either blowing all the money, or, and more common, they allow people who didn't talk to them before they got rich, come into their lives and beg for money. Long lost relatives, long lost friends, and probably even random people. Relationships that soured with friends and relatives all the sudden try to be repaired. That won't happen if I got a bunch of money... My two favorite words to people like that would be "f**k off".

Funny how it usually takes money to get rich.

"When you're young, you have ideas and no money, when you're old, you have money and no ideas"

[billf]

I was eating lunch with Tedy Bruschi one day when, as usual, a fan offered to pay for his meal. He politely declined and suggested the money would be better served supplying a meal for the homeless. He said something profound to me after: "When I was a struggling young man with no money, nobody would offer me a slice of bread. Now that I'm an established player everybody wants to give me things all the time. Our society kind of has things backwards."

[JaMau24]

I was eating lunch with Tedy Bruschi one day when, as usual, a fan offered to pay for his meal. He politely declined and suggested the money would be better served supplying a meal for the homeless. He said something profound to me after: "When I was a struggling young man with no money, nobody would offer me a slice of bread. Now that I'm an established player everybody wants to give me things all the time. Our society kind of has things backwards."

Sad isn't it. People would rather have the satisfaction and also be able to say, "I just bought Tedy Bruschi's lunch!" or any celebrity/athlete, instead of saying "I just bought a homeless persons lunch today!" or any random person.

[Rdmonster]

Rich as in money....I'll never be that...I got a teenager getting ready for college....but I lead a very rich life....got a job that I love and kick *** at...I got some cool hot rod motorcycles...guns and ammo...bowling balls....golf stuff...about a million hobbies....a hot as hell woman!!! To much to list....

Never give up...you never know what life has in store around the next corner. When you're down its never as bad as it looks and when your flush its never as great as it seems. When the weather is ****y I marvel at mother nature...when it's great I do the same...I can appreciate the beauty of a drab day as much as a perfect one.

Drink it up...crack the bones of life and drink the marrow...

when it's time to be dust...thats when you are out of opportunities.

[J Anderson]

When you major in the wrong thing and can't find a job you're technically qualified for and you get older. Is there a point of no return in life where it's impossible to become rich?

The only useful thing that I learned when I took Introduction to Probability and Statistics is that you define what a success is.

As a few other people have mentioned if you define being a success as being rich you will not be happy for long if at all.

By the way, if you were led to believe that you could major in a field, get a degree, and be set for life, you were misled. For at least the last ten years, if not twenty, experts have been saying that the idea of having a single career is on the way out if not completely dead. When my dad entered the work force in 1938, it was fairly common for people to work for the same company for thirty or forty years. In the 60s and 70s most people went into a given field and while they might change companies stayed in the same field til retirement. Quite a while ago I read an article that predicted that new college graduates could expect to change careers three to four times in course of their working lives.